Video of the Day: Sevana – NPR Tiny Desk
Sevana performs NPR Tiny Desk Concert Series (at Home Edition).
Sevana (born Anna-Sharé Blake), is a Jamaican soul and reggae singer. She chooses her artistic nickname after the town she was born in – Savanna-la-Mar, Jamaica. The reggae songstress got her musical break back in 2008 with a girl group called SLR after landing third place on Digicel Rising Stars, Jamaica’s version of American Idol. Then the band broke up. She resumed her journey in 2014 featuring on Protoje single Sudden Flight, and became a part of his In.Digg.Nation collective. In 2016, she released her first self-titled EP featuring six tracks, end went on her first European solo tour. Her second EP, Be Somebody, focuses on the themes of self-reflecting, personal growth, love and relationships.
Today NPR Tiny Desk Concert Series (at Home Edition) premiered her concert with her six-piece band. She shot and recorded this concert at the Kingston Creative Hub back in September 2020 (the interludes you'll hear about the pandemic are reflective of that time). Sevana showcases her vocal range by jumping delicately between traditional R&B, Caribbean gospel and soul, with touches of reggae, performing only four songs If You Only Knew, Blessed, Be Somebody, and her most recognizable track, a dancehall-influenced love song Mango.
Watch below Sevana performs NPR Tiny Desk Concert Series (at Home Edition):
Listen below to Sevana last album Be Somebody, including songs performed at NPR Tiny Desk:
Other wicked songs and projects worth checking this week:
Snips - Soul Flipsta
The Roots - Silent Treatment - Street Mix
Black Pumas, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Colors
R+R=NOW - How Much A Dollar Cost - Live
Alfa Mist - Run Outs
Shai Maestro, Philip Dizack, Jorge Roeder, Ofri Nehemya - Mystery and Illusions
Jeremy Pelt - Don't Dog the Source - Instrumental
Joe Chambers - Samba de Maracatu
Pere Bujosa, Joan Terol, Xavi Torres - Musing
Roman Wroblewski - Jump
Emmet Cohen - You Already Know
Matt Carmichael - The Spey
Fergus McCreadie - Jig
Ben Harper - Black Beauty (From "Black Boys")
The New Mastersounds, Cleve Freckleton, The Haggis Horns - Fast Man - Rare Sounds Remaster
Jon Batiste - I NEED YOU
Big Sam's Funky Nation - Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Roforofo Jazz - 2Kick1
Sven Hammond, Gianski - Thelonious - Mijn Tempel - Instrumental
Orgone - Sophisticated Honky - Live
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